excavateur
French, noun/ɛk.ska.va.tœʁ/
excavateur is spelled E-X-C-A-V-A-T-E-U-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written French, the 179,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Excavateur is a French masculine noun meaning “excavator (vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Engin de gros terrassement à haut rendement, présent dans les sablières et les mines à ciel ouvert”.
What does excavateur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineexcavator (vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Engin de gros terrassement à haut rendement, présent dans les sablières et les mines à ciel ouvert.
adjective: 1. Qui sert à faire des excavations, des tranchées.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of excavateur
- excavateurs plural
- excavatrice singular feminine
- excavatrices plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce excavateur?
- /ɛk.ska.va.tœʁ/
- \ɛk.ska.va.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to excavateur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is excavateur in French?
excavateur appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).